Abraham Abulafia

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Abraham Abulafia was a 13th-century Spanish Jewish mystic and philosopher who founded an influential ecstatic school of Kabbalah focused on meditation, letter permutations, and prophetic experience.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish mystic
Kabbalist
human
philosopher
religious writer
associatedWith prophetic Kabbalah
birthDate 1240
birthPlace Kingdom of Aragon
Zaragoza
centuryOfActivity 13th century
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Aragon
deathDate circa 1291
describedAs Spanish Jewish mystic and philosopher
doctrine attainment of prophetic inspiration
permutation of Hebrew letters
use of divine names in meditation
era High Middle Ages
ethnicGroup Sephardi Jew
familyName Abulafia
fieldOfWork Jewish philosophy
Kabbalistic meditation
founded ecstatic school of Kabbalah
givenName Abraham
influenced later Kabbalists
influencedBy Maimonides
languageOfWorkOrName Hebrew
mainInterest Kabbalah
letter permutations
meditation
mysticism
prophetic experience
movement Kabbalah
ecstatic Kabbalah
name Abraham Abulafia
notability founder of an influential ecstatic school of Kabbalah
notableWork Imrei Shefer
Or ha-Sekhel
Otzar Eden Ganuz
Sefer ha-Heshek
Sefer ha-Ot
placeOfActivity Italy
Mediterranean region
Sicily
Spain
religion Judaism


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